In Tasavvur’s latest issue: they say it is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh. This issue guarantees to do both. Join us on these cozy, grand, and whimsical adventures that may appear lighthearted, but they carry emotional weight and unexpected depth.
Bird and Bread
“I have seen the end of the world. It is not like an approaching train. You don’t see it coming.”
Read More →Tinker’s Leap or The Prince Who Fell From The Sky
“Do you hear that stillness drawing close around you? Tickling your very eardrums? Look up, even the clouds hang silent and still as clouds in…
Read More →Wheel of Fortune, Wheel of Life, Wheel of Gold
“Death has remade vindictive praying mantises into hunch-backed maidservants, has remade godlings into kindred cowherds who later rose to legendary prominence.”
Read More →The Fairy Shop Op
“I don’t care what your reasons are. Fairies aren’t healthy for you. Your biologies are fundamentally incompatible.”
Read More →Justice For Djinns: A Conversation with Saad Z. Hossain
"If humans have changed so much in five thousand years (allegedly), why would this race, this mortal race, stay the same? Why would they be…
Read More →Dimensional Diaries: A Quarterly Winter Roundup of South Asian Speculative Fiction
"Speculative short stories, novellas and books, published by South-Asian authors, from October to December 2025."
Read More →“I have seen the end of the world. It is not like an approaching train. You don’t see…
Read more →“Do you hear that stillness drawing close around you? Tickling your very eardrums? Look up, even the clouds…
Read more →“Death has remade vindictive praying mantises into hunch-backed maidservants, has remade godlings into kindred cowherds who later rose…
Read more →“I don’t care what your reasons are. Fairies aren’t healthy for you. Your biologies are fundamentally incompatible.”
Read more →"If humans have changed so much in five thousand years (allegedly), why would this race, this mortal race,…
Read more →"Speculative short stories, novellas and books, published by South-Asian authors, from October to December 2025."
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About Tasavvur
Tasavvur, which literally means Imagination in Urdu/ Hindi, aims to provide a warm and cozy space for imaginative short stories
About Tasavvur
Tasavvur, which literally means Imagination in Urdu/ Hindi, aims to provide a warm and cozy space for imaginative short stories
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